Star Wars at Madame Tussauds

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"Unmissable for Star Wars fans…"

18-May-2015

If you've got a Star Wars fanatic in your house - young or old - you'll score major brownie points by taking them to see this brand new exhibition at Madame Tussauds. They've spent millions, working alonside Disney and Lucasfilm, to come up with this walk-through experience. There are 16 characters in 11 separate sets from all six movies and many of them are uncannily lifelike - the Liam Neeson one is so good, you expect him to move at any moment.

What's really new, though, is the way they've framed the whole experience. Each set has been designed for the selfie-generation. Not only are there buckets of selfie sticks in case you forgot somehow to bring your own (duh) but the characters and their surroundings are built to make it easy for you to slot yourself into the scene. So you can sit beside Chewbacca at the controls of the Millennium Falcon and put it into hyperdrive, or cosy up next to Princess Leia in that bikini pose with Jabba the Hut. Everything from the smell of Yoda's swamp to the forest floor has been thought of.

Having been through it as part of a press preview, it's worth noting that this may not be the best place for really small children - but the big ones (particularly the 40-somethings) will love it. Even better is the fact that this huge new expansion to Madame Tussauds is part of the general exhibition and included in the main ticket price - so there's nothing extra to pay for covering the two new floors.